Jefim Borissov Житие мое

Loading Assebmlies with references

Recently I encountered this thing again and had to look for an answer for quite some time (again ).

Just an example of the assembly structure I wanted to have:

• Main.exe
  • lib (folder)
    • Shared.dll (used by Main.exe, Plugin1.dll and Plugin2.dll)
    • Plugin1.dll
    • Plugin2.dll

The answer – open up your app.config from Main.exe project and add the following (under <configuration> tag):

<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    <probing privatePath="lib"/>
  </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

That is it. Now it will also search for referenced libraries in the lib folder